Y’all have completely lost me with your pseudo-technobabble.
One of my course books in graduate school was written by Heisenberg, BTW.
I didn’t understand a damn thing.
The Heisenberg Principle says you can’t measure both the position and the mass of a particle. For example, you can count how long it takes to roll between two points, but to weigh it you have to stop it and put it on a scale.
So if you beam something up, you are measuring it to put it make together correctly, but the stuff is moving, like, breathing and stuff.
The"Heisenberg Compensators" well, compensate for this. Someone asked Michael Okuda who was a tech guy for TNG, “How do the Heisenberg COmpensators work?” and he responded, “Very well, thank you.”
Isn’t he the one who posited something about a cat being alive or dead or both or some such. I am home from a very long and hard day at work and my brain is only partially functioning. I also didn’t have much physics in school. Cecil wrote an ode to Einstein and Heisenberg, IMS. It may not serve tonight…
I like the snappy reply re TNG guy.
No. That was Erwin Schrodinger. In his thought experiment, he postulated the idea that, if a cat is placed in a sealed box with poison inside, and htat poison will be released, killing the cat, if and only if a certain quantum event occurs (I think it was whether a single atom did or did not decay), then the cat is neither alive nor dead until the box is opened to observation.
Heisenberg originated the uncertainty principle–the notion that, for sufficiently small particles (sub-atomic small, I mean), it is impossible to know both the velocity and position at a given moment with arbitrary rigor.
Position and momentum, not mass. Usually the mass of a particle is pretty well known and invariant, so it’s the velocity that’s uncertain.
Oops–sorry. I knew that (or I thought I did–I’m too tired to care tonight). None of them sound like people I’d want to have a beer with… but then, I don’t drink much beer!
Thanks, don’t know why I screwed that up…I read the text book and everything.
It is impossible to remember all aspects of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle correctly at one time.